Episode 08: ​This week we’re talking to Becca Bartholomew.  
 
We talked about: 
• Ensuring all voices are included in planning processes 
• Why it is important for leaders to not only have intelligence but also have emotional intelligence and somatic intelligence
• What the buffering sign on your computer has to tell us about today’s work environment

Barry Oshrey’s Tops, Middles and Bottoms 

Ladder of Inference: 

Your Body is Your Brain by Amanda Blake 
 
A facilitator and coach with expertise in organization development (OD), Becca has extensive experience working with groups and individuals to foster communication and effective collaboration among diverse stakeholders. Becca helps her clients implement strategies that increase their emotional intelligence and efficacy. She is known for her clear communication, innate ability to foster trust, and firm, yet gentle approach to helping others recognize their blind spots and engage specific tools to articulate and reach their goals. She gracefully supports her clients toward self-reflection, new learning and increased awareness of their impact on others. She works with leaders of all types and has a special passion for those newer to leadership as well as those who hold societal privilege and want to address their roles in upholding and then dismantling systems of oppression.
 
Links: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccabartholomew
https://twitter.com/thebeccab

​Episode 07: This week we’re talking to Cinthia Manuel.
 
We talked about: 
• the challenges nonprofits face in trying to make their services more accessible.
• What to think about before getting started with community engagement. 
• Why Cinthia thinks traditional mentoring is backwards.

Cinthia Manuel is the CEO and Founder of Autentica Consulting, LLC. She specializes in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Mentoring; and Multicultural Marketing. She is the proud daughter of immigrants and a first-generation Latina. She was named one of the 23 Business People to Watch in 2019 by the Portland Business Journal for her work contributing to communities of color through professional development, mentorship, and entrepreneurship. She is passionate about education and has worked with the Gates Millennium Scholarship Alumni Association, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and the United Negro College Fund. She is a TEDx speaker. She deeply believes that building strong communities is key to creating a powerful voice that drives change.

Links
www.autenticaconsulting.com/
www.linkedin.com/company/autenticaconsulting/
twitter.com/AutenticaCo

This week we’re talking to Arielle Goodman, Jenny Hegland and Jessica Srikantia.
  
We talked about: 

• What this uncertain moment in history could mean for the systems that we live in and take for granted
• How we are born into a collectively traumatized culture that has a domination logic built into its systems.
• A systemic analysis can divorce ourselves from our part in that system – as if it exists  outside of us instead of us existing within these systems. 

Resources mentioned:

Otto Schwarmer and the MIT Presencing Institute
www.ottoscharmer.com/
www.presencing.org/​

Thomas Huebl
thomashuebl.com/
 
Arielle, Jenny and Jessica are a team of colleagues that has been working together for the past six months to discover how they might be of service as a collective. Their work exists in cultivating the spaces between, such as in-between people during times of transition and not knowing, spaces within our own selves, or the connective tissue of complex systems. Together, they explore what is possible in and from wholeness. They are committed to transforming themselves into alignment with life, so that they can support this work in the broader world inclusive of and beyond their individual selves. Their areas of expertise include navigating uncharted terrain in times of uncertainty, helping systems see and sense themselves, and practicing sacred relationships with team and stakeholder groups.
 
Links: 
www.linkedin.com/in/jennyhegland
​www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-srikantia-206797173/
​www.linkedin.com/in/ariellegoodman/

​This week we’re talking to Beth Sperber Richie.  
 
We talked about: 
• What is burn out is and why burn out is so prevalent in the nonprofit sector
• What the research shows about rest and productivity for organizations.
• What vicarious trauma is and how it impacts staff and an organization’s culture.  

Beth Sperber Richie, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and consultant in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area. Dr. Richie works with non-profit leaders on how to sustain their staff and their mission given the grind of social change work. She gives workshops and presentations on managing stress and burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, improving cross-cultural communication and counseling skills and setting boundaries for front-line employees. Her workshops focus on practical skills and engaged involvement of all participants.  

​Beth on LinkedIn

This week we’re talking to Rebecca Murphy.
 
We talked about:

• What organizations need to think about to be ready to partner
• Having clarity about what your why is key for partnering.
• Why mission creep is so common among organizations and what drives it.

 
Rebecca has been a consultant for over 20 years. She considers herself an “interpreter,” as she has worked in multiple sectors including government, nonprofit, business, and philanthropy. She is adept at explaining/translating one to another. She is a generalist with a broad knowledge base – including workforce development, affordable housing, parks and place making. She has expertise in capacity building, organizational and program development, strategic planning, with particular expertise in public-private partnerships, community engagement, and strategic collaborations. Hers is a mission-focused practice. She is passionate about mission fidelity, and avoiding mission creep.
 
Links:
https://rcmstrategicconsulting.com/
https://twitter.com/RCMStratConsult